Hello parents of Kindergarten A
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned and are out and about enjoying this great weather!
English
We have been continuing to improve our English language skills this week. We are enjoying our story writing and copying lessons. Where as a class we create a story using verbs, adjectives, nouns etc and different students help build up the story sentence by sentence.
After we create the story we copy it down to practice our English writing and to memorise sentence structure.
Out English chart has been helping us focus more on using English the majority of the time in our class. On Tuesday most of the class received stickers for their efforts and I am sure in no time we will be giving out our first English achievement certificates.
Maths
In maths this week we learned a little about fractions, practised our addition and subtraction drills and reviewed our skip counting.
I have been quite impressed with how well everyone has been improving with with addition and subtraction drills. Everyone is not only getting faster but more importantly they are getting more accurate, taking their time to make sure the answers are correct before they move on.
Unit of Inquiry
In our units of inquiry this week we made our final decisions on what we want to do for our YEP performance and without giving too much of the performance away the class has opted to perform a play with a traditional festival dance at the end.
We set to work looking at different plays that have a clear message and that have enough parts for every student at have a role as well as short enough to be performed and memorized. We also made dragon masks and started practicing our festival dance with the help of Ms Rika and Ms Nao.
Finally we are looking at possible costumes for our performance but it seems that everyone in the class would like to wear a happi for our final dance of the year together.
Play
We spent time in the gym this week but we have all been very careful to regularly spray or was our hands so that we can protect ourselves from the flu or any other germs that are floating around in the colder months.
Graduation Photos
On Friday this week we all got dressed up to have our graduation and class photos taken!
It was a lot of fun though we did find the hats to be funny!
Show and Tell
On Thursday Taisei and Kazushi decided to do their show and tell time together because they had the same toy they wanted to share with the class. They wanted to go together so that everyone would have a change to play with the toy!
Japanese class
Before each Japanese class to get us in the right mindset we always sing country roads in Japanese.
Important Information
Height and Weight checks
The height and weight checks have been done and will be emailed you you on Monday.
Homework
In the homework packet this week you will find -
Maths drills
English story writing
Chinese New Year dragon craft
YEP ticket design competition form
Japanese homework
Influenza
Just a reminder to parents that influenza has been keeping children home recently so please keep healthy and let us know if your child has had a fever or has been feeling sick.
We have been taking extra precautions in class with washing our hands, wearing masks and using alcohol spray to keep the germs away.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
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